Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1887-11-14
TURBULENT SCENES.
Serious RiOting in Trafal-
gar Square, London.
THE MILITARY CALLED OUT.
Over 100000 Persons Estimai ed
to be Present-Fierce Fights
24O Injured.
I Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD. |

LONDON, November 13.-The pro-
elamation of Sir Charles Warren, head
of police, forbidding the holding of a
meeting in Trafalgar Square to-day
was placarded throughout London
last night. At O'Clock this morning
Trafalgar Square presented an ANNA
tea appearance, owing to the continual
arrival OF bodies of police, small drafts
having been made from every district
in the metropolis. Three hundred
Grenadiers were st ,tioned in the bar
racks in the rear OF the National gal
lery. Police to the number of 1900
formed
HOLLOW SQUARE
Four feet deep on the southern side
for the purpose OF projecting Trafalgar
Square and $500. men were held III re-
serve. There were double patrols in
all the debouching streets. Until
O'Clock there was no sign of a process
sion, hut at that hour groups mainly
of sishtseers or roughs began to as
semble in the vicinity of the square,
nut squads of mounted police kept
traffic moving and dispersed each
group as it formed. During these
charges there were many
EXCITING INCIDENTS.
As the. crowd thickened the police
were compelled to use their .batons.
By three o'clock there was an i'm
mense concourse of people packed on
the steps of st. Mary's Church and
Morley's Hotel and on the roofs of
houses in the adjacent streets, the
majority of whom seemed to be res
pectable people attracted by curiosity
The remainder were loafers of the
worst classes.
SEVERAL ARRESTS
were made about this time. Finally |
various societies, Socialist, Radical |
and Irish approached the square from
many directions. The paraders were
headed by bands Of music and they |
carried banners and notices. The |
police attacked and dispersed each |
group as it arrived near the square.
Fierce fights took place on the Strand,
avenue, Whitehall, |
Pail Mall and other adjacent streets,
One of the societies succeeded in en-
tering the square, but was repulsed |
after
A BLOODY FIGHT,
In which Commoner Graham was Sc
riously injured. Graham Was subse-
quently arrested for attaching the
,a1fan fha arn,ud in fla |
vicinity of the square numbered 100,-
900 and the police were powerless to
thoroughly disperse them. Cavalry
and infantry were summoned to the
assistance Of the police, but no charge
was made, as the people, of their own
accord, began to dispense at dusk. !
About 200 citizens and forty police
men We're injured. Fifty persons
were arrested, among them being
Socialist Burns. Some of the injured
were well enough to leave the hospi
tai after treatment. One patient was
DREADFULLY BURNED
With vitriol squirted from syringe.
Another declares that he was bayo-
netted in the bullock. Two police
men were stabbed with knives. 1t
was noticeable that the crowd while
hooting the police cheered the cavalry
and infantry posted in the middle of
the square, ready for action in case
the crowd broke the police line. If
the crowd had succeeded in breaking
the line it is believed that the Riot
Act would have been read and the in
fantry ordered to fire.
ARRIVAL OF THE LIFE GUARDS.
When the cavalry force with Col.
Talbot at its head, arrived from White
hall, and Magistrate Marshall pre-
to read the riot act, in case
such a warning should become neces-
sary, the crowd became good hui
mored in marked contrast with their
demeanor on the arrival of the
police. While the guards
trotted eight abreast down the square
cheers went up, accompanied by
shouts of "Bravo, Marshall, We want
free speech; we are all true English
men, Irishmen and Scotchmen, we
only want our legal rights as citizens
OF London" A second circuit OF the |
square by the guards
ELECTED OPPOSITION
From mob of roughs in the crowd,
who shouted, "Britons shall not be |
ruled by lead and bayonets. Three |
groans were given by the Home Sec
rotary. The squad patrolled the
square several times and then turned
into the adjacent streets. They sue
ceeded in awning the rougbs, and IN
greatly thinning out the crowd. AT
five O'Clock the Grenadlers wheeled |
into the square
WITH FIXED BAYoNETs
and with twenty rounds OF ball car
tridges in their pouches. They were
accompanied by ambulances. They
halted in front of the National Gallery
and opened into line. The mob was
thus caught between the lines OF pol
ice and military and the roughs were
compelled
TO RUN TIE GAUNTLET.
Thew were hastened on their way by
a shove of one of the policemen, a
cuff from another and lick from the
third. Some OF them showed dis
position to maintain their ground, bnt
the soldiers brought their bayonets to
the" charge" position and the sight OF
THE COLD STEEL
quickly decided them to retreat. The
officers of the Grenadiers rushed to
the front and ordered their men to re-
place their arms, and the soldiers
contented themselves with pounding
with their rifles in the rear OF the
crowd. Boxing the ears OF turbulent
roughs with vigor seemed to delight
the policemen. The crowd now hooted |
the military with an energy equal to
that with which they had cheered
them before. Soon alter hye O'Clock
the police made a series OF
VIOLENT CHARGES
With their batons in determined
efforts to clear the whole vicinity,